After Gu Xinglang and Yu Xiaoxiao walked a little further away from the imperial study, he asked Yu Xiaoxiao, "Were those seven people sent to the Ministry of Punishment?"

Yu Xiaoxiao nodded and said, "Let's not worry about those murderers. Xiao Gu, I still think that wallet is suspicious. Do you think we should check this wallet?"

Gu Xinglang thought that he should confess his crime as soon as possible and let his wife investigate. God knows what she can find out. "That wallet is mine," Gu Xinglang said to Yu Xiao after making up his mind.

Yu Xiaoxiao looked at Gu Xinglang and frowned, "You carry two wallets with you when you go out?"

Gu Xinglang-_-|||, why are his wife's thoughts always different from those of normal people?

Yu Xiao: "Don't you think it's too heavy to carry two wallets with you?"

Gu Xinglang brought Yu Xiaoxiao to a tree on the side of the road and whispered, "I saw the woman you caught last night."

Yu Xiaoxiao frowned and said, "This seems to be a big deal. Tell me, what's going on?"

Gu Xinglang told Yu Xiao about his encounter with the three women at the Shuiguan Bridge. "I wanted to give her some money, but before I could take out the silver from my bag, the old woman took the purse from me. She kowtowed to me, and I..."

"You gave away both the money and the wallet?" Yu Xiaoxiao interrupted Gu Xinglang and glared.

Gu Xinglang bowed his head and admitted his mistake: "It's my fault. I didn't see that those three people were wrong at the time."

Yu Xiao: "You actually gave away several pots of buns!"

Gu Xinglang..., it sounds like he is really guilty of a heinous crime.

Yu Xiaoxiao touched her pocket and said, "Hey, where's the wallet?"

Gu Xinglang hurriedly handed over the bag of money that he had put in his pocket.

Yu Xiaoxiao weighed her purse, and after a few pots of buns were taken out for a walk, they returned to her arms, which prevented her from being heartbroken to death. "Isn't that young lady beautiful?" Yu Xiaoxiao asked Gu Xinglang while weighing her purse.

Gu Xinglang immediately said, "There was no light on the bridge at that time, so I didn't see her face clearly. I just saw that she wanted to jump into the water."

Yu Xiaoxiao pouted and said, "If you can see it, she didn't commit suicide! If someone really wants to die, they will definitely find a place where no one is around to die!"

Gu Xinglang said: "I was deceived. It's my fault."

Yu Xiaoxiao..., this boy admitted his mistake so readily, how could she educate him?

Gu Xinglang looked at Yu Xiaoxiao and said, "Are you angry?"

Yu Xiaoxiao said with a sluggish face: "If the few pots of buns can't be returned, I will definitely be angry!"

Gu Xinglang wanted to remind Yu Xiaoxiao that the money in the purse could buy more than a dozen pots of buns, but thinking about his wife's character, Gu Sanshao swallowed the reminder and decided not to commit suicide.

Yu Xiao: "By the way, how did that woman deceive your sympathy?"

Gu Xinglang said: "She said that her husband died early, and her only son was seriously ill and had no money to treat him. The money she raised from selling her family property was stolen by thieves. In desperation, she..." When Young Master Gu came to this point, he was stared at by Yu Xiaoxiao and could not continue.

Yu Xiao: "Her son is sick, which means that her son is not dead yet. If her son is not dead, why would she die? Shouldn't a normal person grit his teeth and live to take care of his son? Xiao Gu, how can such a lie fool you?"

Gu Xinglang said: "She lost the medical fee and has no face to live anymore."

Yu Xiaoxiao chuckled and said, "Just because she said it was lost, it was lost? Then why didn't she die during the day but at night? If she really lost the money, she could sell herself to save her son, or find a job and ask her boss for an advance on her wages. If that doesn't work, she could just take a bowl and go begging on the street. If she really has a son to save, how could that woman think of dying?"

Gu Xinglang lowered his head and said nothing. He was being stupid. Seeing how pitiful the three women were, he really didn't think much about it.

Yu Xiaoxiao took a deep breath and said, "Forget it. A little goblin like that is very deceptive, and there are two old people helping her to deceive. Women, children, and the elderly always make people sympathetic. Just by listening to you, I can tell that the little goblin's acting skills are first-rate. Did she cry pitifully? Did she break your heart?"

Gu Xinglang muttered: "What she looks like has nothing to do with me."

"Really?" Yu Xiao: "If it's an ugly monster, can you go home and hide it from me?"

Young Master Gu stopped talking again. The more he said now, the more mistakes he would make.

Yu Xiaoxiao sat down under a tree and said, "We'll talk about this demon later. Now I don't understand why these people would kill Liu Shuban's family and then send someone to Shuiguan Bridge to deceive your sympathy. This is unscientific."

Gu Xinglang said: "Big brother said they want to investigate this."

Yu Xiao: "Do you know this Liu Shuban?"

Gu Xinglang shook his head and said, "I have never dealt with Office Manager Liu."

Yu Xiaoxiao sat on the ground and pondered. Gu Xinglang had never met this Shuban Liu before. The Liu family was wiped out, and a woman and two old men pretended to be pitiful and cheated people for money at Shuiguan Bridge. These two things seemed to be unrelated, but the timing was too coincidental. The murderer and the fraudster were from the same gang. How could there be no connection between these two things?

"Xiaoxiao," Gu Xinglang called.

Yu Xiao: "Let me think about it."

Gu Xinglang sat next to Yu Xiaoxiao and whispered, "When I go crazy, I will kill people at will. That old woman took my purse. Do you think they want to frame me?"

Gu Xinglang opened Yu Xiaoxiao's mind. After thinking about it carefully, Yu Xiaoxiao shook her head again and said, "Just a purse can turn you into a murderer? These people are too naive."

Gu Xinglang said: "What do these people want to do?"

Yu Xiaoxiao held her chin with her hand, stared at the green space opposite for a while, and said, "If she wanted to frame someone, that woman should have thrown the wallet at the crime scene. Why did she carry it with her?"

Gu Xinglang subconsciously touched his waist and remembered his jade sachet. He said, "That group of people left something in Liu's house. My sachet was left in Liu's house by them."

Yu Xiao: "That jade ball?"

Gu Xinglang nodded and said, "My eldest brother came to the mansion to look for me last night. He found the sachet, which was broken into several pieces. My eldest brother went to the Liu Mansion before Lord Wang last night. He found the sachet in the Liu Mansion. He came to the mansion specifically to ask me questions."

Yu Xiaoxiao slapped her forehead and said, "Why does this sound so complicated?"

Gu Xinglang placed his hand on the back of Yu Xiaoxiao's hand, looked at Yu Xiaoxiao and said in a trembling voice: "Xiaoxiao, I didn't kill anyone indiscriminately."

Yu Xiaoxiao touched Gu Xinglang's face and said, "I know you didn't kill anyone. You have memories when you were crazy now. If you really killed the whole family, would you still be able to eat roasted sweet potatoes with me and roll in bed with me last night?"

A note to readers:

The second update is here.

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